I have gained zeal in this arena of design and code after I got into University (which was seven semesters ago). Most projects going into production require designers and coders, hence in the initial days of my college, I did both on my projects.
One of my significant contribution at my University is towards App Development. One of the apps I have built alongside my team is a cross-platform app on Flutter for the campus media body - Monday Morning. The project is in a private GitHub repo for security reasons. The app is available on the play store(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.ac.nitrkl.mondaymorning).
One of the other projects I have worked on is a mobile app for the Institute Counselling Services to make the like of first-year students at NITR more comfortable. The application has over 1.5k downloads and around 900 active daily users.(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.ac.nitrkl.scp.scp) This app makes the booking process of the psychiatrist and counsellor entirely online removing the need for paper and thus making the process hassle-free. The project is wholly open-sourced with contributors from outside our University. (https://github.com/developer-student-clubs-nitr/project-avocado)
In the past two years, I have realised the importance of community, centred on tech-based solutions. I am presently the Lead at NIT Rourkela for Developer Student Clubs, an initiative under Google Developers to teach and garner the student community by empowering them with relevant tech skills to solve the community problems through technology. Through this program, we have conducted numerous workshops on topics ranging from app development to machine learning.
I have been the organiser of the HacktoberFest 2019 meet-up at my University, wherein we encouraged open-source development in our local student community. In the past months, I have organised two hackathons at the University to provide students with a platform to develop solutions to real-life problems.
In the University life, I have understood the importance of community centred around tech and have led the Developer Student Club for the year 2019-20. I was one of the winners of the Auth0 hackathon and feel privileged to be part of the community.
Links: https://linktr.ee/DesignrKnight
What am I up to in the lockdown?
I am guiding hackers in MLH Hackathon as a mentor.
Wrote an article, and planning to write more: https://www.section.io/engineering-education/authors/abel-mathew
Did an internship at Goldman Sachs
Worked on a project to help people in this lockdown by building a digital storefront for grocery shopping: https://github.com/dscnitrourkela/project-raasan
Participate in hackathons in the weekend, and also won two of them: https://devpost.com/software/anti-fraud-vaccine, https://devfolio.co/submissions/projectraasan
I have also done sessions on non-tech based topics such as Resume Making and Email Writing[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sJJmq9wMFO0ZBlqT04SPeMF2htrAsGvD/view, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NCMyLxqojakJKy25LbRM0mximsr2vtJ7fRPTfPsSK_Q/edit?usp=sharing]
Talk at Silly Hacks Hackathon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8sp4lejF9k